Thursday Aug 11, 2011

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Swearing off reading the news for the next while.
idgas:
Because it is all bad or the problems are self made or that people are stupid and we should turn the earth over to more deserving lifeforms like earthworms and rats?
reximus:
Agreed, I can barely watch even the Daily Show lately without getting depressed.

Wednesday Jul 13, 2011

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Jesus christ. Started the p90x program today. Hopped in the shower afterwards and had trouble raising my arms high enough to wash my hair.

Really, though, I'm doing po' 90x. No pullup bars, no weights, no mat, not even a chair. I've got a set of bands with a torn handle, a towel, and not quite enough room on the floor to stretch out all...
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hyatt:
I'd love to try the p90x one day. Can't do anything too intense with my healing injury right now.

How's it going? biggrin
mitska:
I never tried it, but sounds like a winner! Good luck! biggrin

Thursday Jun 30, 2011

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I've spent the past week trying to fix the phone wiring in this office building that serves a hydrofracking company. Note that phone wiring is not really a thing I have any training in. The place has two separate phone demarcs, for some reason, and the wiring infrastructure is split between them. Half the phone jacks are hidden behind heavy, cheap furniture, so I can't...
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Saturday Jun 25, 2011

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Well, that was a bummer of a post to check out on. I'll note that anger is one of the commonly-accepted stages of grief and leave it at that.

I'm back, apparently. SG made me a reup offer I couldn't refuse--put it this way, if I have a complaint about the site at any point over the next year, I won't be able to assert...
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accuser:
Oh good, I can go back to not posting in CE. I kept reading threads and saying, "The rationalist point of view is... not missing, exactly, but lacking. I guess I should post something." That explains it.

Wednesday May 11, 2011

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What I'm tired of today is movies about terminal patients who are so brave and clever, rather than being petty and bitchy and stupid because the combination of pain, meds, and not a little bit of fear is more than they can handle.

One thing I learned, though, is that people who are dying of CF suck at thumb wrestling. I won like five times...
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idgas:
Death is not dignified the one dying can be dignified.

Sorry about your acquaintance.


Edit: Pay for another year of membership.

Monday May 09, 2011

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Interesting concept that popped up at Small Wars Journal recently: "combatant with combat immunity" versus "combatant without combat immunity". It's a dissection of lawful vs unlawful combatant, in the context of the division between military action and law enforcement. A combatant with combat immunity--a lawful combatant--has legal immunity to charges of murder, assault, kidnapping, and a host of other crimes while acting in the capacity...
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psyche:
Wait, is this an actual thing that has been implemented? Are there actually war combatants who have immunity to that kind of shit? And if so.......... who??? I'm dying to find out.
psyche:
It reminds me of that quote.

"You kill 1 person, you go to prison for life. You kill 50 people, you get an insanity plea. You kill 5,000 people, and you win a medal of honor."

Thursday May 05, 2011

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So, I had a job doing some telephony work at a bank, today. I'm moving around from the phone room to the server room, and I'm humming a tune as I go because it's stuck in my head. After a few minutes, I realize I'm singing this song in the middle of a bank:



Nobody commented. I guess Social D must not be popular among...
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psyche:
I've done something similar to before. Just started dancing full-on "liquid" style to some rave music that was stuck in my head. Also in a bank. There was this giant circle of space around me, from people walking around me like I had the plague.

Sometimes you just need a calm and tranquil place to schiz out.
psyche:
LMAO!!! Oh, THAT'S what song you were singing! tongue

Thursday Apr 28, 2011

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So, you know how awkward it can be when you say goodbye to someone, and go to leave, and it turns out you both need to go in the same direction? That's me and SG right now. STOP FOLLOWING ME SG
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idgas:
Go duck around a corner and run like mad. SG isn't too smart and will not find you. I on the other hand will miss seeing you on the boards. Good luck and keep safe.
psyche:
lol

You can run, but you can't hide.

We will come stalking you.

Tuesday Apr 19, 2011

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Letting my account expire in a few days. It's becoming too easy to browse SG rather than work on actual projects. For instance, I'm making this post instead of writing up some invoices I need to send out...
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psyche:
Boy, I know what that's like. I'm always browsing SG in the middle of doing everything--school, work, homework, projects. I still get it all done, but it takes like 20x longer than it really should because of this site. I swear, it's so addicting! tongue

We will miss you. I hope you don't take too long of a hiatus honey!
chris_sick:
Foiled again, me.
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